Jabir Khalil Ibrahim, Director of Iraq's State Board of Antiquities, has stated that he approached the American military authorities and asked them to protect the Baghdad Museum, and that they promised to do so, but did not.
Jabir Khalil Ibrahim, Director de la Junta de Antigüedades del Iraq, ha declarado que se puso en contacto con las autoridades militares estadounidenses para pedirles que protegieran el Museo de Bagdad, y que éstas prometieron hacerlo, pero no lo hicieron.